Life without Jean at home was bad today, because I had no anti-eel mate. My mom didn't bother cooking another meat dish since Jean wasn't around to protest against her unagi. Since majority won, I had no choice but to eat it. The taste of an eel.. yuck. I was cringing while eating it. Not that the cooking was bad, but the thought of eating some form of snake is quite disturbing.

http://www.dyslexia-teacher.com/t7.html and enter Dot's Diary.

I was so bored just now I started wandering into the internet. I think I'm slightly dyslexic. I was trying to find out why I can't spell words like recieved/received; wieniawski/weiniawski, and for some time, I thought blood was supposed to be spelt "blud". And I had a lot of difficulty differentiating "p" and "9", "b" and "d", "2" and "5", Z and its mirror image, J and its mirror image etc etc. I had problems writing Jean's name when I was young because of that J. Even till today, I find myself sometimes struggling to get the correct letter. When I read through some of my old work, I realised that there were many cancellations of "b, d", "p, 9" etc.

After I read the article, I realised I fulfilled quite a majority of the symptoms. My math in primary school was the cannot make it type. Whenever I look up at a screen, then look down, then look up again, I always get very lost. I have problems with the mirror image thing. Evangeline spent some time in class trying to train me to react faster when differentiating them. We race each other to write out the Alphabet, but she's way faster than me. I confuse E and 灵 and 归 (the Es inside). I don't follow long instructions easily and I used to resort to repeating and writing down. My spelling isn't good, jy will know. Another example, whenever I spell "friend" something my teacher once told me always has to go through my mind: "Friday is the end of the week".

But I don't think my case is that serious. After all, I managed to live 16 years without going through those therapy sessions, I think. But I vaguely remember myself being singled out in class while I was studying in US, to attend a smaller group of about 5 people for some lesson related to English. Unfortunately, I don't remember what that was for. The only way I spell spell everything correctly is through the computer spell check. Though I make the mistakes over and over again, they look the same to me. Recieved and received hardly make a difference when I am trying to spell that.